This area holds reference materials about Soto Zen and Buddhist practices, people, teachings, objects, etc. The terms here are also used as "glossary terms" to provide popup tooltips where the terms appear elsewhere on the website.
This list will continue to grow over time.
When Sujata brings an offering of "rice milk" or "rice pudding" to leave for the spirit of the sacred fig tree and instead finds a skeletal Siddhartha instead, she…
A modified version of this recipe from Shakayla Felice was one of the "crowd favorites" at the Sweeping Pine 2024 retreat, and one we…
Many overnight-oat recipes call for a 1:1 ratio of oats to liquid. I like a ratio of 1:2 (plus fruit) for oryoki because it is more soupy and less sticky: easier to clean the…
I really like chilled cucumber salads (I have a crushed cucumber salad recipe I really need to post too). This one works particularly well for oryoki (IMHO) because the long…
We were talking about Zen poetry recently, so I thought I'd post one of my favorite books / poets: Rengetsu - Life and Poetry of Lotus Moon - a translation and biography by […
The Donner DMS-1 sheet music stand can be adjusted down to 16.5" (or up to 50+ inches), has a tiltable / adjustable bookplate, and a fairly narrow tripod base (also adjustable)…
For Ango 2026, we are going to start one of my favorite books about the core teachings of Buddhism: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Vietnamese thiền teacher [[Thich…
